Hi! I’m Graham,

I am a writer, among other things; based in Cardross, on the edge of Argyll where I live with my partner Wendy, her two children and Dash the dog.

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My writing is about my life with Schizophrenia but it is also about my family and the natural world, about loneliness and death and alienation. That sounds pretty sobering ! I hope not! It is also about love and the joy of listening to the curlews on the Clyde and collecting seaglass from the seashore.

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I have worked in the field of mental health and mental illness for most of my life; spending a considerable amount of that time trying to speak and bear witness to the reality of the lives my friends, colleagues and companions experience.

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My personal writing is almost an act of rebellion; over the decades it is possible to get weary about the theories and ideals people have to reduce the suffering many people in our community experience; they come and go, inspire, motivate, produce great emotion and repeat and repeat.

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I prefer to try to write from the everyday, even though my grasp of reality is sketchy! I talk about life as I find it; the excitement and joy of family; the late nights battered by too many thoughts. I think we learn more and feel less patronized when we are not told what to think but can make our minds up for ourselves.